Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes

Nor days nor any time detain.
Time past or any love
Cannot come again.

Guillaume Apollinaire

And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.

Guillaume Apollinaire

At last you're tired of this elderly world
Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating
You're fed up living with antiquity

Guillaume Apollinaire

The poems I am writing at the moment will be much closer to your present way of thinking.I am trying to renew poetic style,but within a classical framework.On the other hand,I don't want to lapse into imitating others.Letter to Picasso 1918.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Guillaume Apollinaire

From this new alliance for until now costume and scenery on one hand, choreography on the other, have been linked only artificially there has resulted in Parade a kind of sur-ralisme.